[pp.int.general] Anybody checked out placeavote.com?

[Martin Stolze]

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Hi Together,
I keep arguing that a lack of infrastructure is actually our biggest
challenge. I guess, by now, it is safe to say that we don't actually have
the capacity to build something ample ourselves (Liquid Feedback, shitty
mailing lists, limesurvey you name it). The way I see it is that we simply
don't manage to activate the talent that would be necessary to develop
something pioneering. All the good ideas and innovations coupled with our
lofty idealism is worth nothing if nobody is pouring them into Java or PHP.

The guys at placeavote.com have been gone through the news as they try to
shoehorn direct democracy into any form of electoral system by means of
levering it out and replacing politicians with proxies that only relay
decisions made by the corresponding constituency.

Of course implementation, especially in the US, is highly unlikely. However
using it at least internally to a certain degree or forking it a little can
be a chance for us to move out of the technological middle ages that we are
stuck in.

It also seems not to be open source (yet?) but I am thinking more along the
lines of sweet-talking the guys behind it into working for us as some kind
of software consultants, maybe we can flatter them with a bit of the cash
that should come our way in form of election refunds?
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What do you think?
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